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PLAY THE BEST GAMES BY INDEPENDENT DEVELOPERS
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PROGRAM INFORMATION & GAMES
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WELCOME TO THE EIGHTH EDITION OF INDIGO, WHERE YOU PLAY THE MOST OUTSTANDING GAMES BY INDEPENDENT DEVELOPERS. Explore the prison and play 42 games
INDIGO is organized by Dutch Game
varying from prototypes to finished
Garden. We’re a game incubator and
products: entertainment games, applied
business center with multiple locations
games, multiplayer games, student
in the Netherlands, housing 40+ game
projects, and more. Don’t forget to
studios. Our mission is to create
check out the gym filled with VR
economic growth by supporting the
games!
Dutch games industry and promote entrepreneurship.
And remember to vote for your favorite game! Cast your vote for the
www.indigoshowcase.nl
INDIGO Award using the tickets at the
www.dutchgamegarden.nl
registration desk.
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Program Talks
Partners & Sponsors Layout INDIGO 60 Seconds! Alpha Mind
CONTENT
Battle Planet Bernband
Bohemian Killing Boltstorm Boy Beats World
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Bury Me, My Love 17 Code 7 18 Crest
Cublast HD
CycleSPACES DEEP
Downward Spiral: Prologue Enjoy The Little Things
Have a Blast Hidden Folks
Judge Mental
Keyboard Sports
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Lonely Mountains: Downhill
Nowhere Prophet ODU
Original Hill Farming
Panzerwehr 1949: Stalingrad Planetoid Pioneers Retro Rockets Revolve
Rusty Lake Paradise Salaam Game
She Remembered Caterpillars Splat
Staxel
Steeeve
Super Man or Monster Tell Me What You See
The Botanist & The Animals The Long Journey Home The Red Stare Townville
Unforeseen Incidents VRobe We Were Here
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DOORS OPEN STEAM BUSINESS UPDATE BY VALVE @ THE LIBRARY
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STEAM BUSINESS UPDATE BY VALVE @ THE LIBRARY
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THE UNREAL ENGINE IN 2017 BY EPIC GAMES @ THE LIBRARY
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HOW REAL TIME RENDERING WORKS IN UNREAL ENGINE 4 @ THE LIBRARY
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DRINKS BY REDIRONLABS
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INDIGO AWARD CEREMONY @ THE LIBRARY
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PROGRAM
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TALKS
10:30 STEAM BUSINESS UPDATE BY VALVE
13:00 THE UNREAL ENGINE IN 2017 BY EPIC GAMES
@ THE LIBRARY Join Valve for a brief presentation about Steam and look at the changes they’re working on. They’ll follow with Q&A and conversation. Valve is looking forward to meeting developers face to face, answering questions, and hearing feedback and suggestions as well. This talk will cover the business side of Steam as well as some specific features available for game makers. Valve would like to see developers of any experience level making games for any platform, including PC, mobile, web, or console. Come learn about Steam, the Steam audience, and the tools and features that Steam provides for connecting with your audience.
@ THE LIBRARY Epic Games gives a look at where they are at nowadays with Unreal Engine 4. From their high end film work with Sequencer and Hollywood studios, to Augmented Reality and Apple, to their games such as Paragon, licensee success stories, and their newest tools.
11:30 STEAM BUSINESS UPDATE BY VALVE @ THE LIBRARY This is the same format as the 10:30 talk. 6
14:00 HOW REAL TIME RENDERING WORKS IN UNREAL ENGINE 4 @ THE LIBRARY This in-depth technical talk will go over how the geometry rendering works in a real time renderer. Learn more about occlusion, drawcalls, different workflows, where and why performance disappears, and so forth. The goal of this talk is to make you understand all the millions of steps the hardware is going through as it is rendering the game to the screen.
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PARTNERS/SPONSORS
THE PRISON
THE GYM
THE CELLS
RedIronLabs CycleSPACES Downward Spiral: Prologue Enjoy The Little Things ODU Panzerwehr 1949: Stalingrad Steeeve Tell Me What You See The Red Stare VRobe
14. Code 7 15. Unforeseen Incidents 16. Bohemian Killing 17. Nowhere Prophet 18. Hidden Folks 19. The Botanist & The Animals 20. Lonely Mountains: Downhill COOL GAMES 21. She Remembered Caterpillars GROUND SHATTER 22. Have a Blast VERTIGO GA 23. Battle Planet
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Cool Games Ground Shatter Vertigo Games Keyboard Sports The Long Journey Home Bury Me, My Love Staxel We Were Here Planetoid Pioneers 10. 60 Seconds! 11. Retro Rockets 12. Judge Mental 13. Super Man or Monster
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60 SECONDS!
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60 Seconds! is a dark comedy
suburban lifestyle: THE NUCLEAR
apocalyptic scavenger and survival
APOCALYPSE! Stay alive in your fallout
adventure. As Ted, a responsible citizen
shelter, make difficult decisions, ration
and a family man, you are faced with
food and hunt mutant cockroaches.
a slight disturbance to your happy,
And maybe survive. Or not.
ROBOT GENTLEMEN • WWW.60SECONDSGAME.COM
alone and almost one with the
control with your brain. The goal of the
landscape. This can be calming, but
game is to remain in a desired state of
can also pose dangers. A player who
mindfulness. The player is immersed
keeps their brain under control, can
in a stark virtual environment of rough,
control nature and the elements with
untamed nature. In the midst of rivers
the power of their mind!
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Alpha Mind is a VR game that you fully
ALPHA MIND
and rockeries, you are completely
VIRTUAL PLAY • WWW.ALPHAMIND.VIRTUALPLAY.SPACE
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BATTLE PLANET
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Experience a stunning looking rogue-like VR shooter with non-stop action. Endless planets, massive boss fights and ultimate firepower awaits you. Fight your way up the high score ranks in this addictive one-stick shooter game and become a combat legend. How long will you survive before your planet blows to pieces?
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THREAKS • WWW.THREAKS.COM
SOKPOP • WWW.SOKPOP.CO
BERNBAND
In Bernband, the player explores a futuristic city. The game revolves around discovering weird areas and characters. You can interact with buttons, levers, plants, and other objects on the way. Plus, you can crouch!
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BOHEMIAN KILLING
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In the late 19th century of steampunk
offering players almost unlimited
Paris, class differences and pervasive
possibilities to solve the lawsuit, thanks
racism lead to a tragedy. A year
to the complete integration of gameplay
later you are on trial, accused of a
and narrative. It is the first law-themed
brutal murder. Bohemian Killing is
game made by a real-life lawyer!
a narrative-driven courtroom drama,
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THE MOONWALLS • WWW.BOHEMIANKILLING.COM
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BOLT STORM
Bolt Storm is a medieval action dungeon crawler with army mechanics and roguelike elements. Play as the mighty Crusader King on a quest of vengeance, build an army and take back your castle.
KUALITY GAMES • WWW.KUALITYGAMES.COM
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BOY BEATS WORLD
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Hit the beats, kill the bots and save the
love for music is rooted deep down
world. We lost the war a long time ago
in our DNA and nobody can take that
and the bots have successfully taken
from us. So liberate the districts, kill
over the world. But we have one thing
the leaders and free the humans using
the bots don’t: a soul! Our inexplicable
nothing but your soul and the beats.
DUCKBRIDGE • WWW. DUCKBRIDGE.NL
Bury me, my Love is a text message based game designed for handheld devices.
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It tells the story of Nour, a young Syrian woman who is leaving her homeland to find refuge in Europe. Majd, her husband, remained in Syria. Through a messaging app, Majd will do his best to give Nour directions to reach her destination safely. The only tools at your disposal are text messages, emojis and selfies. Bury me, my directly from real-world events.
THE PIXEL HUNT AND FIGS • WWW.BURYMEMYLOVE.COM
BURY ME, MY LOVE
Love is a “reality-inspired game”, a documented fiction which draws inspiration
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What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
the horrible truth about the facility. It
Code 7 is a next-generation text
your way through an epic, five-chapter
adventure that combines a fully-voiced narrative with immersive hacking gameplay. You play the hacker Alex and
doesn’t take long until you are forced to ask yourself who Alex really is and if your reality is what it seems to be. Gather information, navigate and hack adventure. Code 7 is a fully-voiced next-generation text adventure for PC, Mac and Linux.
CODE 7
need to help your partner Sam uncover
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GOODWOLF STUDIO • WWW.CODE7-GAME.COM
remembered is not set in stone. What
the God game genre where you
you write and how they experience
take care of humans as if they were
the environment dictates their religion.
your own children. Your only way of
Expressing yourself is the key to Crest;
communication with your subjects is
you will do so through your people and
through commandments. How these
the world they shape.
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Crest is a new and unique take on
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commandments are interpreted and
EAT CREATE SLEEP • WWW.EATCREATESLEEP.NET
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CUBLAST HD
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Cublast HD is a minimalistic and fast-paced platformer, taking your nimble navigating and puzzle solving skills to the next level! Play a wide variety of single-player levels or let your friends join in with local co-op and versus!
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THINKFAST STUDIO • WWW.CUBLASTGAME.COM
user behavior research tool, developed
to simulate cycling through different
by Atlantis Games BV in collaboration
environments and situations. This
with the NHTV Academy for Urban
research tool can simulate varying
Development, Logistics & Mobility.
levels of traffic, types of road lighting,
The game uses a VR headset in
bike lane designs and much more.
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combination with a physical bike set-up
CYCLESPACES
CycleSPACES is a VR spatial planning
ATLANTIS GAMES BV • WWW.ATLANTISGAMES.NL/CYCLE-SPACES-BREDA
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DEEP
DEEP is an meditative VR game controlled by breathing. Put on the headset and our custom breathing controller and explore a beautiful and mysterious underwater world. Breathe to move and move to breathe. Allow the game to sweep you into its relaxing embrace as it teaches you yogic breathing techniques that can alleviate stress, anxiety, and mild depression.
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OWEN HARRIS & MONOBANDA PLAY • WWW.EXPLOREDEEP.COM
gravity, and mystery you have never
veterans, Downward Spiral:
experienced before.
Prologue is inspired by 70s sci-fi
It’s the first game released using new
movies and modern TV series; it’s
innovative ways of moving freely in VR
a wholly immersive VR journey, has
space without players suffering from
distinct style, an intense deathmatch,
motion sickness.
DOWNWARD SPIRAL: PROLOGUE
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Built by award-winning industry
3RD EYE STUDIOS OY LTD • WWW.DOWNWARDSPIRALGAME.COM
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gunpowder smelling action in zero
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Enjoy The Little Things allows you to
Slowly a horrid story unfolds presenting
become a teenager who accidentally
puzzles, challenges and choices.
stumbles into a basement of an old
Keeping your cool can help you solve
house whilst tagging. Immerse yourself
the puzzles and challenges presented
in a first-person perspective: try not
by the game. Failing to stay calm or
to freak out and attempt to get out of
making mistakes on the other hand can
the house by interacting with objects.
have dire consequences...
RIDILUDUS
BOJAN ENDROVSKI • WWW.TWITTER.COM/BOJANENDROVSKI
HAVE A BLAST
Blast all your friends to pieces in less than a minute in this fast-paced, local multiplayer, arcade shooter. Don’t gloat yet, as revenge comes swiftly in this easy to pick-up game. On the couch or the back seat, grab a controller and Have a Blast.
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HIDDEN FOLKS
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Search for hidden folks in hand-drawn, interactive, miniature landscapes. Unfurl tent flaps, cut through bushes, slam doors, and poke some crocodiles! Rooooaaaarrrr!!!!!
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ADRIAAN DE JONGH & SYLVAIN TEGROEG • WWW.HIDDENFOLKS.COM
Judge Mental is a social quiz for 3 to
same question and answers are
8 players. Players have to guess how
anonymously shown. Players then earn
other players perceive them whilst also
points by voting for the REAL answer.
trying to fool them.
If you manage to deceive others with a
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fake answer, you also earn points. The Every player is the Suspect once and
player with the most points earns the
has to truthfully answer a personal
title of Judge Mental.
question. Other players answer the
WOODEN PLANK STUDIOS • WWW.WOODENPLANKSTUDIOS.COM
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Use every single key on the keyboard. As the young apprentice of master QWERTY, set out to explore the keyboard and find your inner key.
KEYBOARD SPORTS
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TRIBAND/TIM GARBOS • WWW.KEYBOARDSPORTS.COM
unspoiled mountain landscape. Make your way through thick
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Just you and your bike, take it on a thrilling ride down an
try not to crash: all the way from the mountain peak to the valley!
MEGAGON INDUSTRIES • WWW.LONELYMOUNTAINS.COM
LONELY MOUNTAINS: DOWNHILL
forests, narrow trails and wild rivers. Race, jump, slide and
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Nowhere Prophet is a roguelike travel game with a turn-based card combat system. Lead a convoy of outcastes and refugees in their search for a new home, the mysterious Crypt. Experience a challenging trip through a strange world inspired by sci-fi and indian culture and reach the Crypt to unlock its mysteries.
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SHARKBOMB STUDIOS • WWW.NOWHEREPROPHET.COM
by John van Engelenburg and Wessel Baay, new ways of using spatial
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In this graduation project (HKU University of the Arts Utrecht) designed limitations in virtual reality are examined via a game. You are fully immersed
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in another world and need to alter this world to escape from your “prison”.
GRINDSTONE INTERACTIVE • WWW.GRINDSTONE.NL
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ORIGINAL HILL FARMING
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Original Hill Farming is a roguelike farming game. Your goal is to live off the land as an amateur farmer on an island with hills. Eat your own tomatoes or pass out from famine. Try to survive as long as possible! If you fail you start all over again on a new island.
SOKPOP COLLECTIVE • WWW.SOKPOP.CO
an end to the war. Panzerwehr 1949
has long been made obsolete in the
is a hardcore World War 2 era mech
irradiated battlefield. In their place,
simulator exclusively for VR headsets,
a new breed of quadrupedal war
hand-crafted for maximum immersion,
machines roam the ruined streets of
inspired by classics such as Steel
Stalingrad: German Jaegers and Soviet
Battalion and Mech Warrior.
Samokhods. Elite pilots of both empires
KUKURU3 • WWW.KUKURU3.COM
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try to score a decisive blow and bring
Stalingrad is about to begin. Infantry
PANZERWEHR 1949: STALINGRAD
On April 1949, the Third Battle of
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Planetoid Pioneers is a game of crafting, survival, and exploration with a rich community of player contributors made possible by Data Realms’ unprecedented approach to collaborative game design and production.
DATA REALMS • WWW.PLANETOIDPIONEERS.COM
weak, however after being killed you
Destructo, a robot built for sabotage,
assume control over a securobot. As
or as one of the feeble retronauts.
this mighty robot you will be able to
As Destructo, you hunt down the
hunt down Destructo and have your
retronauts and sabotage the space
revenge.
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station. The retronaut player starts off
game. You play as either the murderous
RETRO ROCKETS
Retro Rockets is a multiplayer chasing
EMISSIVE GAMES • WWW.EMISSIVEGAMES.COM
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Revolve is a physics-based action platformer. You have no direct control and need to use boosts, gravity and momentum to escape a dystopian world.
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RUSTY BOLT • WWW.REVOLVEGAME.COM
Rusty Lake: Paradise is set on a small
island, interact with the inhabitants
remote island in the Middle Ages. The
and help them vanquish the plague.
few inhabitants of the island, who all
Paradise builds upon the distinctive
have been banned for a reason, must
atmosphere and excitement from the
survive the 10 biblical plagues. As a
Rusty Lake series. The game offers
player, it’s your job to go around the
ominous situations and bizarre rituals.
RUSTY LAKE • WWW.RUSTYLAKE.COM
RUSTY LAKE: PARADISE
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SALAAM GAME
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JUNUB GAMES WWW. JUNUBGAMES.COM
Salaam Game is a peace-building game. Be in charge of creating peace and vanquishing hate. The game is played by tapping the screen and waiting for heart of peace to grow. Pop it and destroy the war symbols that drop from the sky and the hate that comes from the side. When the heart of peace is big enough, it pops and releases a shock wave with the word peace in the middle and destroys the war and hate symbols.
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SHE REMEMBERS CATERPILLARS
She Remembered Caterpillars is a fungipunk fantasy about love, loss, and holding on, told in the format of a color-based puzzle game. A tale illuminating the bond between parent and child, this lush and bewildering title will have players testing their wits against a variety of challenges, all beautiful and very strange.
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SPLAT
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Aim, shoot and strike the balls on the right coloured platforms! Splat is a free game that tests your reflexes in a fun and exciting way. Watch the balls as they enter the cannon, shoot them on the right platform or you’ll go out in a blast!
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CONCEPTLICIOUS • WWW.SPLAT-THEGAME.COM
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STAXEL
Grow your own farm, meet the villagers, and join friends online to build your world! Staxel is a multiplayer, farming, sandbox game that is currently in development. Experience village life as the village’s newest resident there’s a lot to look forward to. The village is filled with all sorts of colourful characters to meet and befriend.
PLUKIT • WWW.PLAYSTAXEL.COM
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Steeeve is a two player psychological
stay alive for as long as possible, and
horror room scale VR game. One player,
ultimately locate and kill the hunter. The
the prey, wears a HTC VIVE virtual reality
other player takes the role of Steve, the
headset and is holding a controller
hunter, who will be holding the secondary
which will act as their light source. This
controller. That player will need to catch
player will need to traverse the room and
the prey.
NEFARIOUS GAMES
new 3D third person action game. The
army, blast monsters and fly around
player chooses if he or she wants to
with your jetpack. As a Monster, it’s a
fight as a MAN to save the world, or as
bash, stomp and beat ’em up game:
a MONSTER to destroy it! As a man,
wreck the city, bring chaos and let your
it’s a great mix between a shooter and
inner monster roam free.
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a real-time strategy game: build your
SUPER MAN OR MONSTER
Super Man Or Monster is an exciting
XFORM GAMES • WWW.SUPERMANORMONSTER.COM
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Tell Me What You See is an asymmetric cooperative game following the premise of a VR game inside a point-and-click adventure. The rooms look like immersive VR spaces for the VR player and like dioramas for the PC player. Both game styles
TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE
meld when the players have to communicate to solve puzzles together.
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PESKY BEES • WWW.PESKYBE.ES
The Botanist & The Animals is a highly experimental game for people with acquired brain injury to help them cope with hypersensitivity.
ADRIAAN, ARAN, LISELORE & FRIENDS • WWW.ADRIAANDEJONGH.NL
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THE BOTANIST & THE ANIMALS
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THE LONG JOURNEY HOME
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Explore an endlessly shifting universe. Forge alliances with powerful alien races. Harness your crew’s skills, from research to archaeology to space combat. Do whatever it takes to come back home.
DAEDALIC STUDIO WEST • WWW.TLJHGAME.COM
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communist spy. You do all of this
game about spying on communist
from the confines of your apartment,
spies from your apartment window. You
receiving information from your phone
are an American agent in the 1950s
and fax machine, using intel from files
on a stakeout, gathering evidence on
on your desk, and taking pictures which
your neighbours, figuring out what role
you can fax to your handler to verify
they play with the goal of eventually
your suspicions.
THE RED STARE
The Red Stare is a room-scale VR
identifying which one of them is a
PLAY:D • WWW.THEREDSTARE.COM
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TOWNVILLE
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Build your dream town consisting of houses, farms, factories, community buildings and a seaside trading port. Manage farm and village productions in your cartoon town, sell goods to further develop and expand your city, harvest farms and grow your island into a flourishing trading port township in the area.
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SPARKLING SOCIETY • WWW.SPARKLINGSOCIETY.NET
UNFORESEEN INCIDENTS
Unforeseen Incidents is a classic interactive mystery set in a beautifully hand-painted world. Join Harper and experience a challenging investigation, smart dialog and a rich cast of characters in this thrilling new adventure game from Backwoods Entertainment and Application Systems Heidelberg.
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BACKWOODS ENTERTAINMENT • WWW.UNFORESEEN-INCIDENTS.COM
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need to confront the negative energies
experience which will take you on an
weighing you down, rebuild your body
emotional and spiritual journey. Ever
and open yourself up to the positive
wanted to see yourself through the
things surrounding you. Only then,
eyes of someone else, or feel what it
if you feel whole again and accept
would be like to have an out of body
yourself, will you be able to return to
experience? Now you can! You will
your body.
VROBE
VRobe is a virtual reality out of body
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VIRTUNIQUE • WWW.VIRTUNIQUE.COM/#VROBE
Lost and separated in an abandoned
Player One is confined to a small
castle set in a frozen wasteland, your
secluded part of the castle. Player Two
only possession left is a walkie-talkie,
roams the castle trying to find Player
with a familiar voice on the other end.
One. Every room challenges your wits
Can you both find your way out in time?
and ability to communicate clearly,
In We Were Here two players are
using only your voice.
WE WERE HERE
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trapped inside an abandoned castle.
TOTAL MAYHEM GAMES • WWW.TOTALMAYHEMGAMES.COM • NL
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ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
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